Publications
The geology and hydrogeology of the Lower Greensand of the Sompting Borehole, West Sussex, by B. Young and R. A. Monkhouse, published 1980 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 91 issue 4, article, pp.307-313) View Online
Abstract:The Sompting Borehole provided the first cored sequences of Lower Greensand sediments beneath the South Downs. The lithologies present closely resemble those at outcrop to the north but the succession is markedly thinner due to the contemporary influence of a westerly extension of the Paris-Plage ridge structure. Hydrogeological studies show that the Lower Greensand here is a potential aquifer. Radiocarbon determinations reveal a surprisingly young age for the groundwater and a significant tritium content indicates the presence of appreciable quantities of recent water.
The Aptian Lower Greensand fuller's earth beds of Bognor Common, West Sussex, by B. Young and D. J. Morgan, published 1981 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 92 issue 1, article, pp.33-37) View Online
Abstract:Exposures of fuller's earth may be contemporaneous with the deposits at Redhill, Maidstone, Woburn, Baulking, Fernham and Clophill. The fuller's earths are considered to be the product of redistribution of wind-borne ash in a shallow marine environment.
Aluminite and other aluminium minerals from Newhaven, Sussex: the first occurrence of Nordstrandite in Great Britain, by R. D. Wilmot and B. Young, published 1985 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 96 issue 1, article, pp.47-52) View Online
Abstract:The aluminous minerals aluminite, basaluminite, gibbsite, bayerite and nordstrandite together with poorly crystalline alumino-silicates occur in collapsed Tertiary sediments filling solution pipes in the Upper Chalk at Newhaven, Sussex. They appear to have formed by the reaction between acid groundwater and the Tertiary clays and the Chalk. Similar occurrences elsewhere on the Sussex coast are described.
Geology of the Country Around Brighton and Worthing: Memoir for 1:50,000 Geological Sheets 318 and 333, by B. Young, published 1988 (116 pp., British Geological Survey, ISBN-10: 0118844075 & ISBN-13: 9780118844079) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries